June 23 - Nanna

It's official-Julia has an imaginary friend she calls "Nanna." Driving home from school yesterday she told me that Nanna was up in a tree and she (Julia) needed to get her down when we got home so she could feed her and play with her. It was hilarious! She's been talking about (and "to") Nanna for the last few days. I wonder how long this will list..only time will tell.

Our little Julia Bean also has a new favorite book about a little puppy called "Muddypaws." She loves it so much that she insisted I read it to her last night while J.D. was giving her a bath. Adorable!

In other news, Master Luke is moving around the house quickly.

He loves to go for the dog water, Laptops, cables/cords of any kind

, XBOX, remote controls, nightlights and tried to get behind the fridge last night (to pull the cords). We have to watch him like a hawk. He also has a penchant for teething on our furniture...our beautiful new coffee table has nice little teeth marks all over it now. I've given him all different types of teething rings, toys, washclothes, etc...but he only wants to chew on furniture or our fingers. And let me tell you, his teeth are sharp. I like to joke he's my little vampire baby because he loves to sink his teeth into people. He also loves to pull my hair!

Luke had a giant PE (poopy explosion) last week and we had to get a new carseat. A few people questioned our inability to clean the old one so please believe me when I say there was poop everywhere and it was beyond gross. The new carseat will be sent to Greg & Nicole for their baby Yamo this fall. This picture is from Luke's first time in the carseat....he's passed out cold and looks pretty comfy, so it's safe to say he likes it!

June 14 - My Little Man is 8months Old!

Happy 8month old birthday baby Luke-we love you bunches!

Please enjoy these pictures of our dimpled munchkins, I love them!

Julia's First Pinata [she was the only girl at the birthday party and she collected more candy than all of the boys!]

Watching Curious George with her best buddy, Ruby

Julia walking Ruby

New Uniform

Going for the XBOX

Luke snuggling with Aunt Sarah

I tried to get him crawling through the tunnel but he was too fast!

I love this picture of him -he is really starting to chub up

Have a great week everyone!

June 11 - My Name is Julia Elise

The things she says.....

*"You're not my friend today" or "You're not my friend anymore" or "I don't like Mommy, I like Daddy." - She usually says stuff like this after we tell her not to do something or to do something she doesn't want to do. I knew she'd say stuff like this eventually but not this young!

*"My name is Julia Elise." - She's been introducing herself like this since she started her new class at school. The teacher has been calling most kids by their first and last names but since our last name is a mouthful, they are going with her middle name. She loves it!

*"I want to wear my unicorn." - Unicorn = uniform in her world and I'm happy to report she enjoys wearing it to school. Friday is free dress day and eve

n more thrilling, she actually wanted to wear a skirt yesterday. Very unusual!

*"Mommy, I want two braids please." - She requests that I braid her hair every night now, I love it!!

*"I'll feed baby Luke. You can go play with my toys if you want." - She said this to Sarah multiple times when she was in town for Memorial Day weekend. Hilarious!

*"I want to hold Baby Luke. I want to hug him. I want to play with him. Can he take a nap with me?" She loves her baby brother...except when he is trying to play with her toys or turning off the XBOX when she is watching a dvd.

Last weekend we went to the zoo to see the elephants (Julia's fave) and ride the merry-go-round. Although we got there right when it opened (9am) it was very hot (record breaking 100 degrees). We decided we'll wait until the fall to go again, it is just too toasty right now!Sarah and Ruby came in town Memorial Day weekend and we had a blast. Saturday we went to gymnastics, danced around the house and took Julia to her friend Lincoln's birthday party. We went shopping on Sunday and swimming on Monday. Julia loved hanging out with Aunt Sarah and Ruby, and Luke loved snuggling with Aunt Sarah! He was very spoiled when she was here.

J.D. and I went to the new parent orientation last week for Julia's new class and I left wishing I was going to pre-school! Every month they have a classroom

theme where the decorations and activities are related. June is "rain forest", July is "under the sea" and August is "outer space." They do something fun every day of the week in addition to their regular schedule:

*Monday - 'Mad Science' science projects

*Tuesday - 'Dynamic Arts' which is either gymnastics, martial arts or hip/hop dancing

*Wednesday - 'Mouse Club' which is leaning to use computers to make comic strips)

*Thursday - 'Monart' art class

*Friday - different activities like splash day, pizza parties and even clowns that come to school.

Master Luke is doing fabulous. He is a speed demon on the crawling front and always on the move. He loves to try to get to the XBOX to turn it on and off. Sometimes he'll get to it when Julia is in the middle of a movie and she'll shout "No Baby Luke! You need to go to time out now!" He also recently discovered the stairs so we have to watch him like a hawk. He has 5 teeth and another 2 crowning. He also just started waving, it's adorable! He's still my little cuddlebug and loves to be held.

I'll post more pictures in the next few days, I have a lot of cute ones of Julia and Ruby, as well as Sarah and Luke.

Have a great weekend everyone!